Splash Down In Pacific Aboard USS Ticonderoga
Skylab astronauts Charles Conrad Jr Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz returned from a 28 day 11 million mile mission landing in the Pacific about 830 miles southwest of San Diego aboard the USS Ticonderoga. Recovery used flotation collars and a later mobile medical lab aboard the carrier for postflight checks. The crew completed 395 orbits and reentering after a critical retrorocket burn at 9 11 a m local time.
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Uss Ticonderoga
Pacific Ocean
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
San Diego
Calif
Mission Control
Conrad
Kerwin
Weitz
U. S
Ticonderoga
U.S
Earth
Apollo
Pacific
May Seek Local Funding For Mt.V. Youth Program
Marion Illinois AP report covers two distinct items. Cynthia Barnes, age 17, was sentenced to 20 to 100 years for fatally stabbing a 50 year old paraplegic with a meat fork in a Marion home. The sentence followed testimony and her guilty plea, with Judge William Lewis urging cooperation at Dwight Reformatory for Women. Separately, prosecutors and police praised a Supreme Court obscenity ruling expanding community standards to ban books and films offending local sensibilities, signaling potential enforcement against dirty material nationwide.
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Marion, Ill
Cynthia Barnes
William Lewis
Miss Barnes
Martha Damico
Marion
Chicago
Lewis
Dwight ‘Reformatory
Bernard Cohen
Associated Press
Supreme Court
Florida Asst. Atty
Ray Marky
High Court
Man Shot in Urbana Man in Serious Condition at Hospital
An Urbana man, Warren Eugene Hammock age 19, was listed in serious condition at Good Samaritan Hospital after a shooting shortly after 6 a.m. at 1008 Wescott Street. State's Attorney Don Irvin said a third person is a suspect, with no charges filed. A neighbor reported the incident at 6:08 a.m. and Hammock was taken to the hospital by officers.
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Urbana
Good Samaritan Hospital
Don Irvin
Warren Eugene Hammock
Charlotte Shelton
Wescott St
Hammock
Senate panel okays 5.5 per cent Social Security rise
The Senate Finance Committee voted 11 to 2 to add a 5.5% cost of living increase for 28 million Social Security beneficiaries to a debt limit extension bill. If the House accepts, the measure would take effect next January, with President Nixon facing a veto risk over added costs. The current law already allows a COLA but only from January 1975.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Russell B. Long
D-La
Long
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
George P. Shultz
Nixon
Senate approves land-use bill to curb sprawl
The Senate passed a land-use bill 64 to 21 to curb chaotic urban sprawl and protect beaches and shorelines. States must draft plans within eight years, with $1 billion for planning and $66 million for admin and research over eight years, plus targeted grants for states and tribal plans under Interior supervision.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate Interior Committee
Henry M. Jackson
Wash
Interior Committee
America
Interior Department
House Interior
SIU OKs campus beer as age drops to 19
George Mace, dean of students at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, says campus beer busts are allowed under a fall regulation that permits drinking on non city property areas such as the student center arena and football stadium. He bans alcohol in dormitories citing age limits but would back selling beer and wine in dorms if state law changes.
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SIU
Carbondale
Ill
George Mace
Southern Illinois University
Mace
Two ex POW pilots face misconduct charges
Navy Captain Walter E. Wilber and Marine Lt. Col. Edison Wainright Miller have been formally accused of misconduct by Rear Adm. James V. Stockdale for actions during their POW years in North Vietnam. Stockdale mailed the charges to Navy Secretary John Warner. details remain unavailable.
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Mike Shanahan
Washington
Pentagon
James V. Stockdale
Coronado
Calif
Stockdale
Navy
Walter E. Wilber
Columbia Cross Roads
Edison Wainright Miller
Tustin
Wilber
North Vietnam
Miller
John Warner
Enustea
Air Force
Theodore Guy
South Vietnam
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Illinois Bankers Split Over Branch Banking Fight
More than 200 banks withdraw from the Illinois Bankers Association after its opposition to branch banking. The move comes from the new Association for Modern Banking in Illinois, which claims 149 dues-paying members and aims for 324 banks with about 40.8 billion dollars in assets.
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Illinois
Chicago
Illinois Bankers Association
Association For Modern Banking
Ilinois
IBA
Blair seeks House support for half percent sales tax cut
Illinois House faces a vote on a Senate-amended tax relief plan backed by Speaker W. Robert Blair. The measure trims the sales tax by 0.5 percent, tied earlier to a Chicago regional transportation proposal. Gov. Walker urges Democrats to reject the plan unless sponsored by them, while Blair cites Daley-aligned lawmakers as potential votes.
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Associated Press
Springfield, Ill
W. Robert Blair
Richard J. Daley
Chicago
Illinois
Blair
Park Forest
House
Senate
Daniel Walker
Walker
Gerald Shea
D-Riverside
Daley
Shea
Cook County
Protest Of Price Freeze Destroys Texas Poultry Stocks
Texas poultry growers report destroying baby chicks and eggs due to the Nixon price freeze. A South Texas producer cites 200000 chickens to be killed by week end. Growers warn of severe feed grain shortages and no relief from the 60 day price freeze.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
South Texas
Moore
Nixon
Biddle
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Pete
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Alan L. Bean
W. C. DuBose
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Andrew
Chris
Peter
Thomas
Space
NASA
Mt.v. Youth Program
Steve Korris
Interaction
Vernon
Walt Wildman
Jefferson County Comprehensive Services
Wildman and Youth Services
Don Burke
State Department of Mental Health
Burke
Joe
HALL
Bank of Edwardsville
J. Homer Kennedy
Kennedy
H. F. Wollenberg IV
T.C. Moore
Home Foods
Nixon, Tex
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